Carbury was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1926, with his surname having originally been spelt "Carrabre".
After announcing for curling games, the junior hockey team Medicine Hat Tigers, the Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League, and for boxing matches, he became most famous through the Calgary Stampede.
Joe Carbury announced the chuckwagon races of the Calgary Stampede from the 1960s until his retirement in 2008.
Thus, at 54 years on the job, Carbury had announced for almost half of horse racing's 117-year history at Stampede Park.
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